Competing Quotes

• I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Running, Air, Feelings

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

  Dick Fosbury

  Athlete, Levels, Percent

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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• What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Workout

  FaceBook post by Arnold Schwarzenegger from Jun 04, 2014

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

  Major Owens

  Compassion, Competition, Busy

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• I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

  Lucy Liu

  Cartoon, Ifs

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• The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Keys, Focus, Pockets

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Sports, Dream, Winner

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• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

  Amanda Bynes

  Class, People, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Divorce, Curiosity, Vision

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.6, Basic Books

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• Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Business, Thinking

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• I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Two Sides, Skating

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

  Dick Morris

  Ideas, Mind, Ambitious

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• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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• Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

  Andrew Shue

  Sports, Fun, Winning

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• There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

  Marvin Harris

  Issues, Important, Needs

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• I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Competition, Healthy, Tests

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

  Jan Egeland

  Attention, World, Emergencies

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Leading Ladies, Supposed To Be

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• I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

  Dennis Brown

  Artist, Thinking, Views

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• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, Teacher, School

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